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Auction: 14018 - The Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, featuring Occupation and Siege Issues, The Harry Birkhead Collection
Lot: 278

(x) Rustenburg
Major-General Baden-Powell and Col. Hoare occupied the town on 14 June 1900. Baden-Powell left the town on 7 August. The next British occupation of the town started with the arrival of Brig.-General Broadwood on 26 September
Transvaal stamps handstamped "v.r." in violet or black
Used
2/6d. dull violet and green, neatly cancelled by part squared-circle datestamp (23.6, one day after issue); small thin at top though of fine appearance for this very rare stamp. Brandon Certificate (1998). S.G. 8, £4,500. Photo

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£1,700